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張晶
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Jang Jeong
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Chang Chǒng
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(born
June 11th 1980 in
Daejeon ,
Korea ) is a
South Korea n
Golf er who plays on the U.S. based
LPGA Tour . She is also a member of the South Korean
KLPGA .
Jang stated playing golf at the age of thirteen. As a teenager she won the 1997 Korea Women's Open and the 1998 Korea Women's Amateur. She attended
Joongbu University . After qualifying for the LPGA Tour at her first attempt, she had a successful rookie season in 2000 including a second place finish. She had difficulty finding her first win, but she made steady progress in her career, reaching twelfth on the money list in 2004. In that year she had nine finishes in the top ten. In July 2005 she finally won for the first time, claiming the
Women's British Open , which is one of the
Women's Majors , by four shots. In February 2006 she was in the top ten of the first ever set of
Women's World Golf Rankings .
